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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

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Tara Brach
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: May 17
Peace Activist
Psychologist
Teacher
Ready
Beauty
Anything
Heart
Touched
World
Fill
Hearts
Mystery
Poetry

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I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.
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Our greatest longing is to be intimate.
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We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.
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When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, Darling, I care about your suffering, a deep healing begins.
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Meditation is evolution's strategy to bring out our full potential.
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If there's a demand of being together in a certain way, those expectations and judgements take away from that space and create an edginess and a cramped-ness to the relationship.
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When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor - without expecting something in return.
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Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives.
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You can think of spiritual practice as a kind of spiritual re-parenting ... You're offering yourself the two qualities that make up good parenting: understanding - seeing yourself for who you truly are - and relating to what you see with unconditional love.
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The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
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That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.
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Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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If I'm judging the attachment, myself, or another person, then I create separation.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
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